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Show POST, GOVERNOR OF PORTO RICO, Is the 125th Man to Fill the Position. In the Last 400 Years. San Junn, P. R. Regis H. Post was. Inaugurated governor of Porto Rico on Thursday In succession to Bookman Wlnthrop, who retired to becomo ns-slstnnt ns-slstnnt secretary of tho treasury at Washington. Chief Justlco Quinines of tho su-premo su-premo court of tho Island administered tho oath of ofllco. The members ot tho supremo court, tho executive council coun-cil and tho houso of delegates at- s tended In n body. Tho foreign consuls nlBo wcro present. Tho occasion wns brilliant nnd Impressive Im-pressive and tho Inauguration was moro elaborato than any previous Induction In-duction Into ofllco. Mr. Post Is tho fourth civil govcrnoc of this island since 1900, when Charles II. Allen was inaugurated. Ho Is tho ono hundred nnd twenty-fifth man to fill tho governorship gover-norship in tho last 400 years. |